To all of those who dismissed the idea that these robots used energy weapons, I was right. Machine guns require ammunition. Ammunition has weight. Energy weapons can use a power source that might be small enough to be carried aloft. The flying robots are probably cutting edge Apex technology and would have equipment and weapons not available to ground troops just on the off chance that a trooper would lose his equipment due to death or accident. You can put a self-destruct command in a robot, where it would be hard to be sure that a human would self-destruct in the same situation.Also, these events must have happened in the days leading up to the destruction of the known world by the overzealous soon-to-be topsiders. There wouldn’t be that much time to develop the zero guns and other energy weapons favored by the topsiders. That would explain why the security forces of Endtown used projectile weapons. The energy weapons preferred by topsiders were not commonly available even to the military.
To all of those who dismissed the idea that these robots used energy weapons, I was right. Machine guns require ammunition. Ammunition has weight. Energy weapons can use a power source that might be small enough to be carried aloft. The flying robots are probably cutting edge Apex technology and would have equipment and weapons not available to ground troops just on the off chance that a trooper would lose his equipment due to death or accident. You can put a self-destruct command in a robot, where it would be hard to be sure that a human would self-destruct in the same situation.Also, these events must have happened in the days leading up to the destruction of the known world by the overzealous soon-to-be topsiders. There wouldn’t be that much time to develop the zero guns and other energy weapons favored by the topsiders. That would explain why the security forces of Endtown used projectile weapons. The energy weapons preferred by topsiders were not commonly available even to the military.